Trousers pockets



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. FREDERIKSEN, SR

TROUSERS POCKETS Filed April 29, 1954 Jan. 31, 1956 United States Patent 2,732,560 TROUSERS POCKETS Jordan W. Frederiksen, Sr., Chicago, Ill. Application April 29, 1954, Serial No. 426,380 1 Claim. (Cl. 2-254) My invention relates to improvements in trousers pockets, for preventing accidental displacement of the contents thereof.

An important object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed, bag-type trousers pocket of conventional size, installed in the usual way, but so formed that the pocket automatically compensates for changes in position on the part of the wearer in such a manner that its contents will not be discharged when the wearer assumes a sitting or reclining position.

A further object of the invention is to provide a trousers pocket in which the contents remain in substantially the same place within the pocket irrespective of the movements of the wearer, and in which the possibility of the wearer sitting or lying on the contents is avoided.

A further object is to accomplish the foregoing objects without the use of sub-pockets or other rearward extensions normally positioned in whole or in part to the rear of the side seam of the trousers, by providing a simply and economically constructed pocket normally positioned entirely forward of the side seam and requiring no straps, tapes or other expensive supporting members.

Other objects and advantages will be made apparent during the course of the following description.

A preferred form of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a detached side view of the improved pocket;

Figure 2 is a side view of the improved pocket and adjacent portion of a pair of trousers in which installed,

schematically shown, as they appear with the wearer standing erect; and

Figure 3 is a side view of the improved pocket and adjacent portion of a pair of trousers, schematically shown, as they appear when the wearer assumes a reclining position.

In the drawings, the numeral 5 designates a rectangular piece of pocket material from which the improved pocket is formed in the ordinary way by folding the material 5 on itself on a straight line 6-7 comprising the front edge of the pocket; cutting the folded material 5 from its lower front edge 7 downwardly and rearwardly in a gentle curve intersecting its bottom edge at a point designated by the numeral 9, thence upwardly and rearwardly in a more pronounced curve intersecting its rear edge at a point represented by the numeral 10, thence curving inwardly and upwardly to a point designated by the numeral 11, thence obliquely outwardly and upwardly in a straight line intersecting its rear edge at a point represented by the numeral 12; and sewing the material 5 together along a line of stitches 8 extending from its lower front edge 7 to the point on its rear edge designated by the numeral 12. The pocket thus formed is comprised of an inner wall 15 and an outer wall 16, open at the top, along the lines represented by the numerals 6-13 and 6-14, and also at its upper rear edges, along the lines shown by the numerals 13-12 and 14-12.

The improved pocket is installed in the usual manner in a pair of trousers 17 having a waistband 18, a side seam 22, and a pocket mouth 23, as diagrammatically shown in Figure 2, by sewing its top edges 6-13 and 6-14 into the waistband 18 of the trousers 17, the line of stitches so formed being represented by the numeral 19, and by sewing its inner wall 15 into the inner flange of the pocket mouth 23 of the trousers 17 along the line of stitches designated by the numeral 20 and its outer wall 16 into the outer flange of the pocket mouth 23 along the line of stitches represented by the numeral 21. The pocket is not stitched or otherwise connected to the trousers 17 at any point below the lowest fixed point 12 of the pocket mouth 23, thus leaving the front edge and the entire lower portion of the pocket hanging free.

With the wearer of the trousers in a normally upright position, objects 24 Within the pocket will naturally gravitate to the pockets bottom edge 9, as shown in Figure 2. When, however, the wearer assumes a sitting or reclining position, the weight of the objects 24 within the pocket will cause the suspended lower portion of the pocket to sag about the lowest fixed point 12 and fold on itself along a generally diagonal line extending substantially from the upper front corner 6 to substantially the bottom edge 12 of the pocket mouth 23, closing off the pocket mouth 23 and causing the objects 24 within the pocket to gravitate to a point 10 below the pocket mouth 23, as shown in Figure 3, thus eliminating the possibility of the accidental displacement of such objects 24 from within the pocket and, at the same time, maintaining such objects 24 in a position only slightly to the rear of the side seam 22 of the trousers 17, where the wearer will neither sit nor lie on them.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by United States Letters Patent 1s:

A substantially oblong pocket for trousers and like articles of apparel adapted for attachment to the trousers with the longer dimension vertically comprising a pair of walls of flexible, sheet material of like configuration placed in planar juxtaposition and joined along portions of their corresponding edges to form the pocket, an upper portion of one vertical edge of the pocket having a handreceiving, access opening, and the margin of said opening being adapted for union with a corresponding opening in the vertical side seam of the trousers leg, the bottom edge of the pocket being convex downwardly and outwardly and that side of the pocket adjacent the said leg seam and below said opening also being convex rearwardly and outwardly and merging at the bottom with the curvature of said bottom edge, said convex side portion of the pocket having its upper termination forwardly of a line projected from the edge portions defining said opening and joined to the lower end of the margin of said opening by a substantially straight, rear edge portion, said merging convex edges together defining a generally downwardly and rearwardly directed pouch at the lower part of the pocket, the projected line being tangent to the extreme part of the bulge of the side convexity to position said pouch forwardly of said seam when the person is erect, whereby said pocket, when carrying contents of sensible weight and the wearer is sitting or reclining, will sag about a line extending substantially from the junction of the front and top edges of the pocket to said straight rear edge portion eflectively to cause the pouch of the pocket and the contents thereof to depend from the remainder of the pocket, the said line of sag serving to close off the pouch from the access opening of the pocket.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,116,643 Strobel Nov. 10, 1914 1,494,067 DIorio May 13, 1924 1,496,683 Sternberg et a1 June 3, 1924 2,557,366 Wennerstrom June 19, 1951 FOREIGN PATENTS 516,506 Great Britain Ian. 3, 1940 

